Ubuntu Canada Meeting: Saturday, February 11th

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I'm currently very busy, but it should clear up in 2-3 weeks, and I'd be
very willing to work on the site once it has. I have a lot of experience
with
PHP/MySQL (I'd say LAMP, but the L is rather redundant in this mailing list :P)
and have coded entire, albeit simplistic, CMSs from the ground up before. I
don't think I'll be doing that here, but I can easily take an existing
system (I tend to prefer phpbb-based CMSs) and work it into whatever we
need.

I'm also experienced with DNSs, and could help with looking into setting up
subdomains and email. If I had known you needed hosting earlier, I could
have offered some of my own :P

I will be at the meeting, but I just wanted to put forward the idea of our
own wiki. I agree that we shouldn't be duplicating things found in other
resources, but having our own wiki would mean a greater level of control
over our own resources, and allow us to use it to hold projects and the
like.

On 2/7/07, Brian Burger <blurdesign at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/6/07, Dave Sullivan <dave at dave-sullivan.com > wrote:
> >
> > * Ubuntu Canada Website (ubuntu.ca / ubuntu-ca.org)
> >     - What to do with it, who wants to help?
> >
>
> I'm not going to be able to make the meeting - I'm at work w/ no IRC
> access all day this Saturday - but as current de-facto webmaster of
> ubuntu.ca, I thought I'd throw a few ideas & suggestions out...
>
> - We've got hosting from Canonical now; Corey needs to get himself
> organized to set this up, then we can redirect the DNS to the Canonical
> servers and away from the elderly greybox in his basement. We'll probably
> just dump the current static HTML pages onto the Canonical servers
> currently, as a placeholder.
> - I'm happy to continue as webmaster/volunteer web designer for ubuntu.ca;
> I'm just as happy to share the job (see next item) or turn it over entirely
> if someone is feeling very inspired.
> - I've always wanted a CMS on ubuntu.ca, so we can have RSS feeds, other
> people supplying news items (editors with varying levels of access) and
> other good things.
> - a photo gallery would be Nice To Have.
> - Planet Ubuntu Canada has been mentioned before as an idea, and I think
> it's a good one. Tony was wanting to work on this; hopefully he'll still be
> able to.
> - that all said, we've always been opposed to duplicating existing
> resources. There's enough fragmentation in the FLOSS world already, Ubuntu
> Canada doesn't need to add yet more under-resourced ideas to the mix!
>
> If local sub-teams of Ubuntu Canada want webspace, something can probably
> be arranged - either as simple subdirectories ( ubuntu.ca/toronto/) or
> perhaps (depending on details of Canonical's hosting) as subdomains - toronto.ubuntu.ca
> , or whatever. insertcitynamehere.ubuntu.ca?
>
> Oh, and I just added this meeting announcement to ubuntu-ca.org itself.
>
> Brian
> ubuntu-ca.org
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